In the Loop
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School's Back In, and Downtown Is Crazy Again
The students are back! And if you couldn’t tell from the traffic, you can tell by all the Athens-Clarke County police reports of drunk people getting arrested downtown.
• An officer responded to a stabbing report at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday at Double Barrel, an East Broad Street bar. The victim and suspect had left, but the officer later interviewed the victim at Athens Regional Medical Center and arrested Robert Woodrow Williams, 19, of Savannah, and charged him with aggravated assault. He stabbed a Connecticut man in the neck with a broken wine glass, police said.
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Oconee Chairman: Connect Roads to Benefit Landowner
Photo Credit: Lee Becker
Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis is asking his fellow Board members on Tuesday night to spend up to $115,000 to create a connection between Old Mars Hill Road and the new Mars Hill Road now under reconstruction.
The change will benefit a landowner who asked Davis to alter the road design, according to email messages among county officials.
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Here Are Your Best Giant Retaining Wall Memes
Photo Credit: Jason Perry
Last week, we asked y'all to Photoshop stuff onto the giant retaining wall on Wilkerson Street, and as usual, Athens stepped up to the plate. Here are some of my personal favorites. Vote for the best in the comments! The winner will get... something.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 24
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
Photo Credit: Caitlin Sullivan
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Send Us Your Giant Retaining Wall Memes
Graphic designers of Athens! People who just like to mess around on Photoshop! This giant retaining wall on Wilkerson Street is just begging to be made into a Selig-style meme.
Click here for a hi-res photo and do your worst. Send the results to [email protected].
The prize is rapelling gear. (Kidding, I don't know what the prize is.)
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Jeb Bush Is Coming to Athens
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore
So far, Jeb Bush is the Isaiah Crowell of the Republican presidential field: highly rated but not producing as expected. Many polls show him trailing Donald Trump by double digits.
The former Florida governor, like the Gators last year, is hoping to turn his season around. And he’ll be campaigning in Athens on Sept. 19, when 100,000 or more registered voters will be gathered here for the UGA-South Carolina game.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp (an Athens resident) announced Bush’s visit on Facebook earlier today:
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Winterville Mayor Emily Eisenman Is Stepping Down
Winterville Mayor Emily Eisenman won't run for re-election this year, and at least three candidates are vying to replace her.
Eisenman, who is nearing the end of her first four-year term, is stepping down because her career won't allow her to spend as much time on her mayoral duties as she'd previously spent, she said.
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Two UGA Retirees on the USG Health Care Changes
Below, the observations of two UGA retirees who attended Tuesday’s UGA-Aon Hewitt meeting at the Classic Center, held to explain the new retiree health benefits.
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